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Regional Clusters of Innovative Activity in Europe: Are Social Capital and Geographical Proximity the Key Determinants?
Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838638
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Regional Clusters of Innovative Activity in Europe: Are Social Capital and Geographical Proximity the Key Determinants?
Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256577
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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9
Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013
High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740495
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Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge
Ejermo, Olof; Hussinger, Katrin; Kalash, Basheer; … - 2021
We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510372
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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis
Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255948
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Micro-Evidence on the Determinants of Innovation in The Netherlands: The Relative Importance of Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration Externalities
Smit, Martijn J.; Abreu, Maria A.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to estimate the probability that a firm will introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256008
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Knowledge Spillovers and Economic Growth
Stel, André van; Nieuwenhuijsen, Henry - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not straightforward which type of spillovers is most effective: intra-sectoral spillovers or inter-sectoral spillovers. We investigate this controversy using a model of regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137071
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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis
Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450786
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Development, growth and decline in Europe: New patterns of economic convergence and divergence?
Cornett, Andreas P.; Soerensen, Nils Karl - European Regional Science Association - 2013
structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not … measure the impacts on regional convergence in a European (country wise) and urban-rural perspective. The first part of the … developments and perspectives until 2020. The second part considers the impact on the process of convergence of the current decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740379
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Micro-Evidence on the Determinants of Innovation in The Netherlands: The Relative Importance of Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration Externalities
Smit, Martijn J.; Abreu, Maria A.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to estimate the probability that a firm will introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838651